Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] locking/mutex: Rework mutex::owner

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 03:55:52PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 08/23/2016 08:46 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> I have 2 more comments about the code.
> 1) There are a couple of places where you only use 0x3 in mutex.c. They
> should be replaced by the symbolic name instead.
> 2) We should make __mutex_lock_slowpath() a noinline function just like
> __mutex_lock_killable_slowpath() or __mutex_lock_interruptible_slowpath().

3) I broken lockdep with the fastpath changes.. we used to only take the
slowpath with debugging, so only the slow paths are annotated. Now we
uncondtionally use the fast paths.